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Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front", 2005.
This paper discusses the cruelty of WWI as presented in Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front".
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This paper explains that murder has a profound affect on man as depicted in Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front"
when the protagonist Paul Baumer, gradually moving from an idealistic German student to an embittered and realistic young man forced to both see and perpetuate senseless carnage on men, forgets the reason for hating. The author points out that trapped in the mud of the no-man's land, Paul has his illusions shattered fairly quickly, though he still seems to cling to the belief that there can still be gentleness and beauty in the world. The paper relates that, although Paul has been responsible for men's deaths before, he never witnessed the exact moment that they stopped breathing, until he stabbed a Frenchman in a trench; even after the man has finally died, Paul cannot find his way back to total sanity.
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"After several months in the war, Paul Baumer goes home. However, he is like the man from the country, who, once accustomed to the noise at night in the city, cannot readjust to the silence of the country. Coming home, he immediately realizes how many things have changed. He has become hardened, his mother is near death, and no one can comprehend what war is truly like. "But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I cannot feel at home amongst these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogany piano-but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us." (139). Paul is unable to resume the life he once led, even for just a few weeks. His father continually asks him questions, "...in a way I find stupid and distressing." (143). Paul is also offended by his old German-master, who patronizingly tells him, "You see only your little sector and so cannot have any general survey." (145). "
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"All Quiet On The Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque, 1992.
An analysis of the novel of WWI as an expose of social divisions and anti-war work.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"While it is true on a grand scale that the First World War revealed great divisions in European and world history in social, economic, cultural, intellectual and political terms, it is also true that the war served as a bridge of sorts bringing all sorts of different people and forces together, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front is just that --- a novel --- and is therefore not meant to be a chronicle of the larger changes in society which the war wrought. Remarque deals primarily with individual human beings and small group relationships as they are affected by the war. The novel is first and foremost a declaration of the horror of war, and in its anti-war posture it is saying that whatever the differences among men and cultures and societies, those differences do not excuse or rationalize the..."
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"All Quiet on the Western Front", 2002.
An analysis of Erich Maria Remarque's novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front".
820 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, $ 29.95
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A literary analysis of "All Quiet on the Western Front". The author discusses the writer's examination of the horrors of World War I through the eyes of the soldiers involved in the war, as well as the effects of war on society at large.
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"All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, is a book that explores the true horrors of World War I through the eyes of a German solider. The author uses the character of Paul to tell a realistic story of what the average WWI solider had to endure. This book raises the issue of how destructive war can be not only to a country, but also to a generation of a nation. One of the major themes in the story is that of the lost generation. An entire generation of men fighting for their country was lost in World War I."
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"All Quiet On The Western Front" ( Em Remarque ), "Hard Times" ( Dickens ) and "Jacob The Liar" ( Jurek Becker ), 1999.
Examines the three novels' treatment of the characters' search for meaning in life in harrowing circumstances of dehumanization and oppression.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 47.95
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"This study will examine three works' treatment of the common theme of searching for meaning in life under harrowing circumstances. The three works are Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Charles Dickens's Hard Times, and Jurek Becker's Jacob the Liar.
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"This study will examine three works' treatment of the common theme of searching for meaning in life under harrowing circumstances. The three works are Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Charles Dickens's Hard Times, and Jurek Becker's Jacob the Liar. The novels deal with various aspects of European history which portray the rise of forces of dehumanization which occurred in the 19th and 20th century (through World War II). Remarque deals with world war and its impact on individual human beings.
Dickens' novel deals with social and economic forces which lead to the dehumanization of workers and children. Becker's novel deals with the dehumanization of victims of a second world war, and specifically with a victim of the Nazi concentration camps which were a central horror in that war. Each of the books also deals with the ..."
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"All Quiet on the Western Front", 2006.
An analysis of Erich Maria Remarque's novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front".
1,333 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper analyzes the character of Paul Baumer in Remarque's novel. It highlights, through example from the text, the social and individual effects of war. The author discusses the message of the book, that war is savagery, senseless and soul destroying.
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"One example of this hardening is seen in the fighting scenes. For example, we read, "The front is a cage in which we must await fearfully whatever may happen" (101). He and the others are forced to deal with change constantly. He tells us that it "makes us indifferent" (101). But change comes in different forms and not always at once. For instance, when Baumer comes face to face with an enemy soldier, he cannot bring himself to kill him. However, in an instant, a basic animal instinct comes over him and he suddenly throws a grenade at the man, killing him. He realizes, "We have become wild beasts. We do not fight, we defend ourselves against annihilation" (113). Another important point we find is how the soldiers are not actually fighting each other as much as they are avoiding death. These scenes allow us to see how the war has hardened the men into creatures that are simply fighting to stay alive."
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"All Quiet on the Western Front", 2004.
Character analysis of Paul Baumer from Erich Maria Remarque?s novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front".
1,332 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper analyzes the character of the soldier, Paul Baumer, and examines the radical, irreparable change he undergoes as a result of being a solider. The paper uses scenes and passages described in the book to support this analysis.
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"Baumer says of Kantorek, ?It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men? (10). In retrospect, Baumer realizes that his entire class was mislead by Kantorek, a nationalist, but he also realizes that it was not solely Kantorek?s fault. He says, ?There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best--in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they let us down so badly? (12). Baumer recalls, ?In our hearts, we trusted them. The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first death we saw shattered this belief . . . the first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces? (12, 13). This illustrates how the boys had to grow up too quickly."
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"All Quiet on the Western Front", 2008.
A review of "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque.
1,387 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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The paper reveals that Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" is probably the most successful war novel ever written. The paper discusses this tragedy that vividly conveys the physical horrors of war and looks closely at Remarque's descriptions of how war turned everything to a nightmare of senseless death.
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"All Quiet on the Western Front is probably the most successful war novel ever written. Its publishers have called it the greatest war novel ever written. When it first appeared in its American edition, it was reviewed favorably by a number of publications, including The Nation, The New Republic, Saturday Review of Literature, and the New York Times. It was an overwhelming best-seller in Germany and throughout the world. In Germany, it caused a traumatic polarization of political views, as right-wing nationalists were outraged over its antiwar and antimilitary message. Alarmed over the popularity of the book, they staged riots in various cities to protest the showing of the 1930 film version of the book, preventing it from being shown in many places."
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"All Quiet on the Western Front", 2002.
An analysis of Erich Maria Remarque's novel on WWI.
738 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper introduces and analyzes the book "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. Specifically, it gives an historical analysis of the book and looks at the question: "How and why does World War I have an impact on this novel? "All Quiet on the Western Front" is a war novel that brings the true horrors of war home to the reader in an effort to show the futility of war.
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"All Quiet on the Western Front" may be one of the most classic and enduring novels about war, as it relates the story of young, innocent men caught up in the violence and bloody battles of trench warfare at its worst. World War I was the first war to make use of modern weapons, such as the machine gun and the airplane. It was the first war to introduce mass killing on a scale that no one thought possible, and the young men who fought in the war were often permanently wounded ? not only physically, but often mentally as well. The doctors called it "shell shock." Today they call it the "Gulf War Syndrome," or the "Vietnam War Syndrome." Men in war see horrific things on and off the battlefield, and they cannot forget them. The First World War began a long line of horrific battles, and the veterans who returned brought the horrors home with them, and often kept them buried deep inside."
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"All Quiet on the Western Front", 2002.
An analysis and examination of "All Quiet on the Western Front".
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This paper is an analysis of ?All Quiet on the Western Front?. It focuses on the effects of World War I on both the soldiers and society. The author discusses how the soldiers are separated and alienated from society due to the fact that no one can truly comprehend the horrors of the war and the returning soldiers are unable to communicate with those who have not experienced it.
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"Erich Maria Remarque?s literary breakthrough, All Quiet on the Western Front, still stands at the forefront of a host of novels on that most tragic recurrence in the history of human experience: war. It meticulously chronicles the thoughts of a soldier in World War I while simultaneously detailing the horrors of all wars. The war is seen through the eyes of Paul Baumer, the mouthpiece for Remarque's bitter critique of the ideals of patriotism and nationalism that drove nations into this catastrophe."
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"All Quiet on the Western Front", 2002.
An analysis of Paul Baumer in the book "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Remarque.
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This paper will discuss the book "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Remarque, and learn about the character Paul Baumer, who undergoes many changes in the novel. By understanding the relevance of this main character, we can see how the author constructs him over the period of time in the book.
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"All Quiet On The Western Front", 2002.
A review of "All Quiet On The Western Front" by Erich Remarque.
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This book review explains how Erich Remarque has woven a tale of birth, death and the reality of it happening during a war.
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The Lost Generation, 2004.
An analysis of the suffering of the 'lost generation' as depicted in Ernest Hemingway?s "A Farewell to Arms" and Erich Maria Remarque?s "All Quiet on the Western Front".
789 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper examines how the so-called lost generation suffered from just as many emotional injuries as they did physical ones after witnessing the ravages brought about by war and how two novels that capture and emphasize the raw emotion of battle are Ernest Hemingway?s "A Farewell to Arms" and Erich Maria Remarque?s "All Quiet on the Western Front". It looks at how, through the experiences of Frederic and Baumer, each author allows us to understand the feelings of detachment, disillusion, and hopelessness often associated with the lost generation.
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"One of the predominant emotions the lost generation experienced is detachment. Being a soldier and facing death daily has negative repercussions. This detachment can be seen in A Farewell to Arms during Frederic?s conversation with the priest. He tells the priest that the soldiers ?were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start? (Hemingway 179). In addition, he tells the priest that there really is nothing for him to believe in anymore."
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Individuality of War, 2008.
A critical discussion of "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque.
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This paper examines Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front", considered one of the greatest war novels of all time. The paper holds that the most compelling and real aspect of the novel is the stories of the men enlisted in the German Army during World War I. The analysis focuses particularly on Paul, the narrator of the story. The paper maintains that the novel provides a candid portrayal of life in World War I through the main characters and their relationship to the enemy. The paper concludes that "All Quiet on the Western Front" is not a novel that defines the importance of war, but rather it is simply a story of men; men who are forced to give up everything and put their lives on the line for their country.
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"In the situation the soldiers face, many would assume their hate for the enemy, the people they are trying to fight and win against, would be an outlet for their frustration and despair. Yet, any encounters that Paul describes of the enemy all seem very passive and unaggressive. A perfect example is when Paul is sent to the training camp, which is right next to a prisoner's camp for Russian captives. As Paul narrates his experience with the Russian captives, he speaks of them almost like a foreign object, people he never knew existed or he was fighting against. I believe now that Paul is able to see others like himself. He is able to view their humanity as opposed to viewing an opposing side. "It is strange to see these enemies of ours so close up. They have faces that make one think-honest peasant faces..." (ch. 8). Through this quote the reader is able to see the compassion Paul has for the enemy. The reader is able to explicate that oftentimes Paul is not fighting to win, but he is fighting for the sake of his country, not the political giants or the nobles, but the poor and middle-class families who deserve more. As the time Paul spends in the training camp increases, he begins to feel a connection to the Russians, no longer does he perceives them as the enemy, but unfortunate, hopeless souls. "...if I could know more of them, what their names are, how they live, what they are waiting for, what their burdens are, then my emotions would have an object and might become sympathy" (ch. 8). Paul even goes so far as to give away his cigarettes to the Russian prisoners towards the end of his stay at the camp."
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Isolated Together, 2006.
A comparative study of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" and Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front".
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This paper analyzes and compares the two main characters, Okonkwo in Achebe's and Paul Baumer in Remarque's novels. The paper explores the literature to show the profound effects of murder on man, despite that the novels are set in widely different environments and time periods.
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"Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart refused to change in the face of change; Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front had to change to survive the life he was forced to live while fighting in World War I. Both men ended their lives isolated from all the things that had once made them content. Okonkwo tries to overcome all the changes that have occurred in Umuofia without success. Paul simply notes that he has changed, and realizes the futility of trying to overcome it. Both men die alone, one a broken man, and one with "an expression of calm," on his face."
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Shelley and Remarque, 2003.
A comparative analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's novel "Frankenstein" and Erich Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper examines Mary Wollstonecraft's novel "Frankenstein", or the "Modern Prometheus" and Erich Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" and looks at how they both ask readers to come to terms with what is essential about human nature and the ways on which the terrible technologies that humans build to bridge the chasm between life and death can come to redefine what it means to be human.
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"Mary Wollstonecraft's novel "Frankenstein" or the "Modern Prometheus" and Erich Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" both ask us to comes to terms with what is essential about human nature and the ways on which the terrible technologies that human..."
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